Anderson Cooper Break Up: Anderson Cooper has confirmed that he has broken up with his long-term boyfriend after Photos surfaced of the two of them together for months. Confirmed to DailyMail.com by a representative for Anderson Cooper that the 50-year-old journalist has broken up with his longtime partner Ben Maisani, 45. As long as we’re together, we’ll always be family,’ Cooper said in a statement.
When Cooper attended Victor Lopez’s 33rd birthday party in January and February, he was pictured with him in social media photos. While Cooper was in town for a segment for 60 Minutes on Confederate monuments in New Orleans in January, Lopez accompanied him. Cooper’s AC2 tour stop with Andy Cohen was also a stop in Boston for the Texas radiologist, who posted photos from the audience. Before meeting Cooper, Lopez’s Instagram was Victoro360, which is the same name as his CNN show, but he changed it to Victoro001 in February. At least five trips to Dallas to spend time with 33-year-old doctor Victor Lopez were revealed by Anderson Cooper’s spokesperson, who confirmed that he has broken up with his longtime boyfriend Ben Maisani.
‘Benjamin and I broke up a long time ago as boyfriends. Cooper said in a statement that the two of them “remain family” and “love each other very much.” Our friendship endures, and we intend to spend as much time together as possible in the future. Two days ago, Cooper and Maisani were seen leaving their Greenwich Village apartment together as they headed for a workout at the gym. In the days leading up to Christmas, Cooper was first spotted in Dallas, Texas. While staying at a high-end hotel, the on-air personality ran into at least one excited couple who snapped a photo of them with Cooper.
About Weekend vibes
Over the holidays, he stayed in New York City because of his hosting duties on CNN for New Year’s Eve, but returned to Texas the following weekend. That was the first time Lopez shared a picture of the two men together, which showed them sitting in a vehicle. In the caption, Lopez wrote, ‘Weekend vibes’. The young doctor’s Instagram handle used to be Victoro360, which is similar to the title of Cooper’s CNN show Anderson 360. This suggests that the young doctor has long been a fan of Cooper’s work.
In February, He changed it to Victoro001
On the weekend of January 15, he took Lopez on a trip to New Orleans, where he managed to work and play at the same time. While there to cover the removal of Confederate monuments, Cooper and Lopez shared a photo of the two men in their hotel room, where they were both staying. While Lopez was lying on the couch, he snapped a picture of himself and Cooper, who was sitting in a chair with a suit and a notepad. Lopez joked that he looked like he was in a therapist’s office when he wrote, ‘So tell me about your week,’ in his letter.
As they and Cooper’s 60 Minutes producer Keith Sharman spoke to an elderly gentleman and a woman in a suit in the lobby of their hotel, an excited visitor snapped a picture of the two men. On Instagram, Lopez shared a photo of himself wearing Mardi Gras beads taken in his hotel room. Cooper and Lopez dined at a local pizzeria in Dallas two weeks after that meeting. One delighted birthday girl and her server both posted on social media about their outing, noting that seeing Cooper was one of the highlights of their day. Also, one of the women was able to confirm that Cooper was indeed with Lopez at the restaurant.
A picture with the manager even got Cooper to pose
After Cooper performed his AC2 show in New York City with Andy Cohen, Maisani was one of the guests in attendance. The tour’s next stop was Boston, and Lopez took the initiative to see Cooper perform there and document the experience on social media. It was February 10th when the show was in Boston, and the doctor posted a selfie on February 11th while flying back from Boston.
Photos of Cooper and Lopez were posted on social media after Cooper was in Dallas for Lopez’s birthday party a week later. In any case, Lopez appears to have grown anxious about Cooper’s social media presence at some point, as he deleted some posts and made his accounts private. The fact that he’s recently been pictured cuddling up to another hottie suggests that he and Cooper are no longer romantically involved. These images stoked rumours that Cooper and Maisani had called it quits after nine years of dating. As recently as this past weekend, Anderson 360 host Anderson Cooper was honoured at the Windward School Benefit in New York City, where he was accompanied by 45-year-old Maisani.
In the intervening time, he’s become a lot more open about his relationship with Maisani, even doing a spread for Architectural Digest in August 2016 where he showed off their remote Brazil home. The men spent their time between their vacation home, their New York City firehouse, and Cooper’s growing Hampton’s estate. A 2.4-acre parcel of land next to Cooper’s Quogue home cost him $1.7 million back in 2012. Shortly after that, Cooper purchased a 10,127 square foot, eight million dollar Tudor revival in Litchfield, Conn. The owner of those three vacation properties hasn’t used them in a while because he prefers to spend his free time in Texas.
Who is Benjamin Maisani, exactly?
On January 27, 1973, Maisani was born in Corsica, France. He studied at Hunter College and graduated with a BA in Art. “Eastern Bloc” is the bar Maisani opened after working at another establishment. He made friends with the rich and famous in this bar, including Andy Cohen, who was a frequent visitor. Maisani has an estimated net worth of $8 million, based on data from Wealthy Persons.
It is unknown when Benjamin Maisani and Anderson Cooper first started dating. When the couple first began dating in 2009, they dated for nine years before announcing their breakup in 2018. Their relationship was only made public in 2015 despite being together since 2009. Furthermore, according to DailyMail.com’s investigation, Maisani is still living with Cooper in the Greenwich Village, Manhattan, converted firehouse he bought in 2009 for just over $4 million. A year later, Cooper posted an Instagram photo of the two men with the caption, ‘I guess when you’re with someone for a long time, you start to pose alike.’ Cooper, who is known for keeping his relationships private, did not publicly acknowledge their relationship until May 2015, when he wrote, ‘I guess you start to pose alike.’
As guests of Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg on their 305-foot sailing yacht, Eos, Cooper and Maisani spent a great deal of time together last year, visiting Venice in May and Bali in July. Previously to meeting Lopez, Cooper had made several business trips to Dallas for AT&T events, including one in November. During the first weekend of December, he and Cohen were also in the city for their AC2 tour. Clifton Dassuncao attended a show by Cohen and Lopez in Boston in 2015 and may have met his ex-boyfriend Clifton Dassuncao at the event.
